"He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.”

“Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some”

“In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.”

“The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special”

“Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch”

“For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.”

“The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.”

“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”

“True beauty lies in purity of the heart.”