In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.