"I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing."
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."