I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. - Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.