Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
But, God knows best, I concluded.