All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.