Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

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.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.