"I wrote without much effort; for I..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“I have no talent for certainty.”

“I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.”

“I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.”

“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”

“Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.”

“Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.”

“A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.”

“Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.”

“If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.”