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- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
- Edward Chapin
- When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.
- Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
- No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
- Meg Cabot, (Jenny Carroll), Sanctuary, 2002
- I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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