My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever... - Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."