Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.

Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

I am ill at these numbers.