Jane Austen, Emma

"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."

"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."

"but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."

"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley"

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."