"Let other pens dwell on guilt and..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.”

“I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.”

“Know your own happiness.”

“I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.”

“Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.”

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

“What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.”

“Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.”

“I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.”