"How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."

"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them."

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water."

"If it can be dreamed, it can be done."

"Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it."

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."