Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Feelings change facts.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.