It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

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.