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

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

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

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

"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."

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