People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.