"You must really begin to harden yourself..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.”

“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.”

“It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”

“If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.”

“When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”

“Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?”

“I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.”

“To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.”