✔ The wisest and the best of men—nay, the wisest and best of their actions—may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
✔ I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
✔ "And your defect is to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them."
✔ I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.
✔ Those who do not complain are never pitied.
✔ There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.
✔ You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
✔ "Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?.."
✔ "...Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men."
✔ "...But slyness seems the fashion."
✔ Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
✔ I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
✔ "Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
"For the liveliness of your mind, I did."
"You may as well call it impertinence at once"
✔ To be sure, you knew no actual good of me — but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.