“I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love.”

“A person can't help their birth. ”

“Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.”

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.”

“No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love. I will bargain no more: I withdraw.”

“She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.”

“It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all”