I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.