Custom reconciles us to everything.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.