There is a skeleton in every house.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.