"There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"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."
"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."
"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."