Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.