my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. - Jane Austen

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!