When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

We must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation. -JA

I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. -JA

Oh! Who can be ever tired of Bath? -JA

My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. -JA

We can listen no longer in silence. We must speak by such means as are within our reach. -JA

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. -JA

Dearest reader— For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn? ~JA

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ~Jane

Dear Reader— The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. —JA