All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.