There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.