It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.