I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
Jane AustenWhere a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
Jane AustenNot keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?
Jane Austen