Malice blunts the point of wit.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.