“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.”

“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.”

“I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.”

“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”