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.

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

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Feelings change facts.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.