“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Success supposes endeavour.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth

It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God’s holy presence to fellowship.