❝ A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. Jane Austen
❝ There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! Jane Austen
❝ Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen
❝ A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it. Jane Austen
❝ “You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.” Jane Austen
❝ “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen