The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.
none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.