Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. – Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. – Jane Austen
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. – John Adams