Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
If positivity is what you put out in the universe, positivity is what you get.
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.
With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.