We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.