Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave some advice that I have been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone", he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you have had".

The need to find another human being has always puzzled me. Maybe because I am so interesting all by myself. With that being said, may you find as much happiness with each other as I find on my own. <--谢耳朵>

Don't worry about me. I am an American. Have gun, will travel. <--Downtown Abbey>

The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul. Can we not be forgiven if we believe (contrary to all the rules of our enlightened age) that we fated one day to meet the man or woman of our dreams? Can we not be excused a certain superstitious faith in a creature who will prove the solution to our relentless (不间断的) yearnings? And though our prayers may never be answered, though there may be no end to the dismal (可怜的) cycle of incomprehension (不了解), if the heavens should come to take pity on us, then can we really be expected to attribute the encounter with this prince or princess to a mere coincidence? Or can we not for once escape rational censure （责难） and read it as nothing other than an inevitable part of our romantic destiny?

Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now. Never regret. If it is good, it is wonderful. If it's bad, it is experience.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife ---<pride and prejudice>