I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.