“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
“Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
“Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.”
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
“a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it”
“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions”