A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
Jane AustenMy idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane AustenAbout thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
Jane Austen