Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind,