In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.