The Moonstone and The Woman in White

(from the Preface) In some of my former novels the object proposed has been to trace the influence of circumstances upon character.
(from the Prologue) I address these lines -- written in India -- to my relatives in England.
(from Chapter 1) In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: "Now, I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it."