You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Almost anything is possible with time

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.