A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.