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

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

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

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 roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

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