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

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?

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

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

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!