Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

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

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.

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

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation