One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.