“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys”

“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men”

“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world”

“Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts”

“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. ”