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

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

A girl's affections should never be won unsought.