doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.