He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.