Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.
Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
The more heart, the more sorrow.
Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.