Moonlight is sculpture.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.