It will be a bitter pill to her that is like other bitter pills it will have two moments ill-flavor

It will be a bitter pill to her, that is like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor and then be swallowed and forgotten.

Author: Jane Austen

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A lady's imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.

Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.