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

"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."

"A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them."

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

"I can always live by my pen."

"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am."