One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s. — Jane Austen

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Jane Fairfax is a very charming young woman - but not even Jane Fairfax is perfect. She has a fault. She has not the open temper which a man would wish for in a wife.

Nobody who has not been in the interior of a family can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.