Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
Evil to some is always good to others
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
What strange creatures brothers are!
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)