"A persuadable temper might sometimes be as..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.”

“When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.”

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.”

“Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.”

“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”

“My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

“Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.”

“If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!”