Quotes from Sir Hall Caine

It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,

leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.

when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before.

But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!

Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,

Hidden there—hidden even from himself—had lain inert for months a mighty passion such as only a great heart

Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.