[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.