Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane AustenShe was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
Jane AustenI have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.
Jane AustenFortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.
Jane Austen