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

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

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

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.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.