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

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

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

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.