Katie

“Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.”
― Jane Austen

“I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet”
― Jane Austen

“It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion