"I love you. I am who I am because of you."
Love
"It has not been your way to observe closely."
Wisdom
"I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit."
Wisdom
"And so it is to be, then. I am lost forever."
"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me."
"You have bewitched me, body and soul."
Love
"Some people are so foolish, I cannot bear to talk to them."
Wisdom
"Perhaps I was unconscious of doing wrong."
Truth
"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."
"There is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation."
Relationships
"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, and shall be the better pleased with the solitude of each other."
Solitude
"It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance."
"She is a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
Relationships
"Vanity and pride are different things."
Wisdom
"Perhaps I do not express myself so well as I ought."
"It is the general rule of every one else to be surpassed by you."
Beauty
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
Humor
"She is as tolerable, I dare say, as other girls."
Humor
"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me."
Humor
"My temper I cannot change; but I can change what has offended you."
Change
"I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with you."
Truth
"A person may be proud without being arrogant."
Wisdom
"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."
Truth
"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."
Change
"There is so much of gratitude and esteem couched in this expression of your sentiments."
Gratitude
"To yield readily—easily—to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you."
Strength
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
Relationships
"My temper would perhaps be called proud."
"Do you prefer reading to walking?"
Nature