Fear guides more than gratitude.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.