Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.