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

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.