Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.