"A person who is knowingly bent on..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.”

“Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.”

“It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.”

“There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.”

“It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.”

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

“Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness”

“The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.”