“The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.”

“Look back, and smile on perils past!”

“Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.”

“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”

“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.”

“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.”

“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”

“One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.”

“Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.”

“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”

“It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.”