...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a... - Jane Austen, Persuasion

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

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

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."

"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."

"My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."