To look <i>almost</i> pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beau… - Jane Austen

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

I give you joy of having left Winchester. Now you may own how miserable you were there; now it will gradually all come out, your crimes and your miseries — how often you went up by the Mail to London and threw away fifty guineas at a tavern, and how often you were on the point of hanging yourself, restrained only, as some ill-natured aspersion upon poor old Winton has it, by the want of a tree within some miles of the city.