I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. - Jane Austen

"I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?"

"Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement — people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word."

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.