Experience is retrospect knowledge.
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.