But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.