A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

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

The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.