"Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard."
- Jane Austen
"I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle."
"The less said the better."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
"Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself."
"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. F..."