One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.