The law of common sense.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

God has prohibited despair.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.