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

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

This above all: be true, be true, be true.