To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

These stars of earth, these golden flowers.