Jane Austen

...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.