If you give yourself away to a poor poet who loves you, their disgust will be unbounded.

If a woman wishes to honor her father and mother to their own satisfaction nowadays she must dishonor herself." "I do not understand why you should be so anxious for me to marry someone else ?" "Someone else ?" said Trefusis, puzzled.
"I do not mean someone else," said Gertrude hastily, reddening.

"Why should I marry at all ?" "Why do any of us marry?
Why do I marry?
It is a function craving fulfilment.

If you do not marry betimes from choice, you will be driven to do so later on by the importunity of your suitors and of your family, and by weariness of the suspense that precedes a definite settlement of oneself.

Marry generously.