Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

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

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.