“This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.”

“I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.”

“Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. ”

“A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.”

“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”

“I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave”

“In love there are two evils: war and peace.”