Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Know yourself, not a face, in love, a deeper grace.

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.