He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

I can always live by my pen.

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.