There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.