Would to Heaven I were alone loaded with all the miseries I have described to you! I would suffer them, and with firmness.
"Pardon these details.

You invite me, by the part you take in what regards me, to open my heart to you.

Alas, hope is well-nigh banished from it.

Fortune, when she changes, is as constant in her persecutions as in her favors.

History is full of those examples:--but I have found none equal to the one we now see; nor any War as inhuman and as cruel among civilized nations.