My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

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

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.