"On every formal visit a child ought..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

“It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.”

“There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.”

“I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.”

“I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.”

“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.”

“I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.”

“Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.”

“I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.”