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

There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour …

We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate …

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 most severe evil, I have no friend, Margare…