there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.