"All the world is good and agreeable..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Time will explain.”

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy”

“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”

“I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.”

“The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.”

“I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.”

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?”