It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Justice satisfies everybody.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.