The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.