The Infinite Library

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“Time did not compose her.”

“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.”

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“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!”

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

“Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.”

“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

“It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.”

“She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly.”

“My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

“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.”

“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”

“She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.”

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