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.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

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

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.