"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"