More quotes by Jane Austen

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."