We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

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.

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.