To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny