It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Life and hope must cease together.

I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments