Our scars make us know that our past was for real

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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)