Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

The more you judge, the less you love.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.