You must be the best judge of your own happiness. - Jane Austen, Emma

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"

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

"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."

"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"