... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

The past is the father of the present.

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.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?