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

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

…chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.

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

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

It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and...

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of ‘honor amongst...