Quotes from Dorothy Osborne

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.