"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."

"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"I decided long ago never to walk in anyonea€?s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least Ia€?ll live as I believe."

"When we try to do something new, we don't know what we're doing. That's the biggest challenge."

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."

"Any fool can make a rule,and any fool will mind it."

"As was his language so was his life."

"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves."