But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.