In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.