Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Example has far more followers than reason.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.