"How much better to die than to marry Mr. Collins!"

"The older one grows, the more one likes the taste of life."

"I am fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall."

"The human brain is a funny thing: it will see what it wants to see and ignore what it does not."

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency…"