"The deep connections of the soul are not to be broken by the accidents of life."

"I had been the author of unutterable evils."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"I am a creature of fine sensations, but I am also a creature of terrible imperfections."

"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another."