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

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.

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

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!

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?

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.