That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
You are human and fallible.
Adversity is a good school.
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.
It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.
You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.