The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.