One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.