"Do not give way to useless alarm;..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.”

“How much I love every thing that is decided and open!”

“One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.”

“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.”

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.”

“You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.”

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

“I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.”