What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.