I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.