Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

No evil is without its compensation.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.