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.

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 their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.