I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.