More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"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."
"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"
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"