"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded w…"

"I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understan…"

"I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize …"

"My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my…"

"I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a m…"

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious – painstaking, a workma…"

"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves – such a friend ought to …"

"The ancient teachers of this science promised impossibilities, and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very…"

"I saw – with shut eyes, but acute mental vision – I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing…"