Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

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

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

The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem