"There seemed a gulf impassable between them...." - Quote by Jane Austen

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

“How much I love every thing that is decided and open!”

“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

“Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.”

“We are the other of the other”

“... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.”

““I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.””

“Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.”