"Not very good, I am afraid. But..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.”

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy”

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

“By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.”

“In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.”

“Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.”

“Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.”

“The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.”