"I would much rather have been merry..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.”

“There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.”

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

“Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.”

“Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.”

“But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.”

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.”

“You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.”

“Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.”