Quotes from the World for Friday 05/03/MMXIII

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. The narrator, in Mansfield Park, ch. 48 (1814).