There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Too young for woe, though not for tears.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.