Obstinate, headstrong girl!

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.

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.

Angry people are not always wise.

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

Be bold. Be kind. Be brave.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

When Love And Jealousy Collide On The Slopes, Winter Break Turns Deadly