One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Jane Austen
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. See image George S. Patton
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. See image Harriet Beecher Stowe
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so. See image Jane Austen
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] See image Jane Austen