"The power of doing any thing with..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.”

“I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.”

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

“Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.”

“The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.”

“There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no personality in it, it's not something you want to go back for. But heart without any skill at all? All the heart in the world ain't gonna help you if you can't peel an onion, or if you don't understand how to apply heat properly. A well-done steak is a well-done steak.”

“So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.”

“If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.”

“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”