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

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

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.

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

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.