They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

The soul shares not the body's test.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.

They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.