The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.