There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.