"You must be the best judge of..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”

“Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.”

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”

“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”

“I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.”

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

“The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.”

“It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.”

“A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.”