If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.