Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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?
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!