A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.
the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.