Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company. – Jane Austen
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen