Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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?

Time did not compose her.

Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.