It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

COLD. Healthier than heat.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.