If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.