“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.”

“Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.”

“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”

“I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age”

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe”