I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.