A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.