We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.