"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."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"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"
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"