“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excelle...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“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”

“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.”

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