“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends”
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends”
“We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life”
“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain”
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world”
“The world and its way have a certain worth”
“There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude”
“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”