A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.