The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie SwetchineVirtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!
Sophie SwetchineIndulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine