Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was beingaccomplished.

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.

It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure.