"We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing"
- Because, the things that are worth knowing can only be properly taught by expirience and self awareness.

"If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your dispossition, your goodness, I can never have your happiness"
- Attitude is everything in life.


"Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude have any possible claim on me"
- Nothing is can be binding when it comes to character. Not that sometimes it is not better to adhere to them nevertheless.


"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure"
- The past is gone. Look only for teachings and joys. No regrets, no lookbacks.


"I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit"
- It is meaningless to know theory if you can't put it into practice.


"You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but mostly advantageous. By you I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being admired"
- Without admiration, there can never be true love.


"My object then was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past"
- The appereance of forgetting and letting go can mean pride, as well as goodness.

"I am happier than even Jane; she only smiles, I laugh"

"She endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook"
- When we love someone so much, we rather pretend not to realize their faults or mistakes than actually facing the fact that they might not be so worthy of admiration.

"What praise is more valuable than that of an intelligent servant?"

"Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection"

"She respected, she eestemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a reak interest in his welfare; and she only wanted to know how far she whished that welfare to depend upon herself, and how far it would be for the happiness of both that she should employ the power, which her fancy told her she still possessed of bringing on the renewal of his addresses"