Austen has a strong feminist vision of marital happiness. And that was a radical viewpoint for its time.

For the first time, you had novels that represented this domain of private feelings and women's lives. She examined how people act in private and how that affected the way they act in public.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

Live for now. As it is only in the present that we know the passion of Life as it was meant to be.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.