The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

We are rich only through what we give.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.