| Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. |
| The human heart has hidden treasures. In secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. |
| I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. |
| You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. |
| There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. from the book Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey |
| Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice. Jane Eyre |
| Life appears to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. |