More quotes by Jane Austen, Persuasion

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"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."
"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."