"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" - JA

"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever." - JA

"You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least." - JA

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort." - JA

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." - JA

"The distance is nothing when one has a motive." - JA

"Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like." - JA

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others." - JA

"Without music, life would be a blank to me." - JA

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." - Fernando Pessoa

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." - JA

"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." - JA

"I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive." - JA

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

"Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!" - JA

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness." - JA

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" - JA

"Without music, life would be a blank to me." - JA

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me." - JA

"It is not everyone, said Elinor, who has your passion for dead leaves." - JA