Jane PorterThinkers

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Humility is a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance ; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

The Mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your bold, the brute will turn and rend you.

Nationalism is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.