E.D.E.N. Southworth quotes:

Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite.

Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!