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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.”