(The writing table of my dear Jane Austen )"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen  (Northanger Abbey)

 "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." 

— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience -- or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

"Is not poetry the food of love?"
— Jane Austen