Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!