Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

our foes are almost as many as our readers.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

“Is not it the same thing?” “I think Mr. Morland would acknowledge a difference. No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”