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

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

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

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.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.