More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

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