Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.