"A woman of seven and twenty, said..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.”

“Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

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

“Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.”

“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart”

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

“No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”