it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

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

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.