Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

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 bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

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

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