I Take No Leave Of You, Miss

[i]t Is Well To Have As Many Holds Upon Happiness As Possible.

It Is Always Incomprehensible To A Man That A Woman Should Ever Refuse An Offer Of Marriage.

To Be So Bent On Marriage - To Pursue A Man Merely For The Sake Of Situation - Is A Sort Of Thing That Shocks Me; I Cannot Understand It. Poverty Is A Great Evil, But To A Woman Of Education And Feeling It Ought Not, It Cannot Be The Greatest. I Would Rather Be A Teacher At A School (and I Can Think Of Nothing Worse) Than Marry A Man I Did Not Like.

But There Was Happiness Elsewhere Which No Description Can Reach.

Follies And Nonsense, Whims And Inconsistencies Do Divert Me, I Own, And I Laugh At Them Whenever I Can.