True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Long only for what you have.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.