Quotes from Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.