"Anne hoped she had outlived the age..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

“but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.”

“We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.”

“I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

“It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.”

“Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.”

“No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.”