Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.