I cannot love a man who cannot protect me. - Anne Brontë

I think your piety one of your greatest charms; but then, like all other good things, it may be carried too far. To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul, but not enough to refine away her heart, and raise her above all human sympathies.

The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.