A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

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

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