“Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.”

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”

“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....”

“There are some people who must be saved without warning, and against their will.”

“Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.”

“I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.”

“As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing. It is generally in perfect good faith that the jackdaw struts about in the peacock's feathers.”