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

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

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

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.