The Infinite Library

“He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.”

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

“But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.”

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.”

“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?”

“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.”

“These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…”

“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”