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.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

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

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.

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!

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.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.