Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.