"I declare after all there is no..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.”

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”

“Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.”

“I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.”

“Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.”

“A change is always nice.”

“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.”

“Life is a series of delicious moments.”