Read in order to live.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.