More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"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."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
"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."