Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.