Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.