"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"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."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human."

"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"