Friends Always Forget Those Whom Fortune Forsakes.

I Ask You To Pass Through Life At My Side—to Be My Second Self, And Best Earthly Companion.

What Delusion Has Come Over Me? What Sweet Madness Has Seized Me?

I Think You Will Learn To Be Natural With Me, As I Find It Impossible To Be Conventional With You

Say Whatever Your Memory Suggests Is True; But Add Nothing And Exaggerate Nothing.

It Does Good To No Woman To Be Flattered [by A Man] Who Does Not Intend To Marry Her; And It Is Madness In All Women To Let A Secret Love Kindle Within Them, Which, If Unreturned And Unknown, Must Devour The Life That Feeds It; And, If Discovered And Responded To, Must Lead, Ignis-fatuus-like, Into Miry Wilds Whence There Is No Extrication.