My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

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

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled "Harley College.