The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.