The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.