Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.