Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.