More quotes by Jane Austen

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."