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

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!

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.

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

Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.

In the light, we find the light of life.

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Every happening is a lesson, a message.

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

Surely the stars are images of love.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere.

You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.