Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in... - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"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."

"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."

"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?"

"And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."