Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.