"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."

"There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first."

"The past is never truly dead; it lives on in the present."

"We are all pilgrims on a journey."

"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."