There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
Jane AustenA Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
Jane AustenDress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen