There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), spoken by Elizabeth Bennet