The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.