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

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.