All cruelty springs from weakness.

All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness

All cruelty springs from weakness.

All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.