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

"she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."

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

"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."

"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."