More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

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