"I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment." - Jane Austen

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?