There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
Love is cruel as the grave.
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.