But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband.