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?

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.