It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.