We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working.