Oh! let your heart be softened by your own affliction, friend, and have some sympathy with mine.' The blind man snapped his fingers as he answered: '-- Beside the question, ma'am, beside the question.

I have the softest heart in the world, but I can't live upon it.

Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.

Listen to me.

This is a matter of business, with which sympathies and sentiments have nothing to do.