"it is very well worthwhile to be..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.”

“The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-”

“It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.”

“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”

“The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.”

“Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.”

“Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.”