"But the soul is a sort of intensely black pearl, which, though glimmering sometimes with an awful resplendence, is yet oftenest incrusted with an unbearable scurf."

"A man who has but one eye, however good that eye may be, should never be trusted."

"There are some queer times in this world."

"No man can be a hero to his valet, nor to his wife."

"There are no pains that great love cannot assuage."