Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic. Auteur: Jane Austen Copy Quote More from Jane Austen “…she had no resources for solitude…” “It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it…” “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” “But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were a…”