Relationships and Family

Love seeketh not itself to please,

Your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

Never pain to tell thy love

He who binds to himself a joy

Only by love can men see me, and know me, and come unto me.

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.

And always keep a-hold of Nurse

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,

Those have most power to hurt us that we love.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared … to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free of them there.

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

But who can live for long

Lay your sleeping head, my love,

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.

Come, dear children, let us away;

Ah, love, let us be true To one another!