Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.