Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.