Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.