True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.