I hate work. That's why I got married.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with read more

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but read more

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?

O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.