Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

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!

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

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.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

Keep knocking with the hammer of your love. The door will open when the power is strong enough.

If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.