"Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."

"I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free."

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

"I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."

"It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present."

"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

"The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him."