It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

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