What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!
Character is very much a matter of health.
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.
Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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