The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.