…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hop... - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours."

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."