"I may have lost my heart, but..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

“She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

“When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.”

“At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.”

“Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.”

“Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.”

“An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.”

“When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.”