It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.