To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. – Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. – Jane Austen
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. – Jane Austen
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. – George Berkeley