It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

A short absence is the safest.