There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

How can I dispose of myself with it?

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.