'You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think you perfect, and you set yourself against it. Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your privilege of universal good-will. You need not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.'
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the bit about the inconsistency of all human characters and how no dependence can be placed on appearances is very powerful and transcends time, I think.
Perhaps it's quotes like this that keep this novel going even today, almost two hundred years after it was written.
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