I hope they pardoned them. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions$$$ that I wish it to be always kept alive....I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

With your talents and industry$$$ with science$$$ and that steadfast honesty$$$ which eternally pursues right$$$ regardless of consequences$$$ you may promise yourself everything but health$$$ without which there is no happiness.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas$$$ in which no two of them agree$$$ then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just$$$ "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it."

Without books$$$ I would certainly die.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

And would she herself have married Darcy had he been a penniless curate or a struggling attorney? Elizabeth knew that she was not formed for the sad contrivances of poverty.

What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

It is doubtful whether Mrs Bennet missed the company of her second daughter$$$ but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite child.