Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.