There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – 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
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen