Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

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.