Grief alone can teach us what is man.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.