Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

I am excessively diverted.

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

I walk: I prefer walking.