"Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliber… - Jane Austen

"My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you."

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.