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

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.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

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

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

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