"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."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"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."
"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"