“More unequal matches are made everyday.”

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“Gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

“My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.”

“He made me love him without looking at me.”

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”