There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.
Life has gone by as if I never lived
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.