Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Auteur: Jane Austen Copy Quote More from Jane Austen “He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, l…” “...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my …” “I can always live by my pen.” “The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt…”