"Sense will always have attractions for me...." - Quote by Jane Austen

“But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”

“No one can give you better advice than yourself.”

“Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.”

“Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.”

“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.”

“They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.”

“What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?”