"What praise is more valuable than the..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Faultless in spite of all her faults.”

“I want nothing but death.”

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

“Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

“I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.”

“Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.”

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”

“A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.”