The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett