there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.