When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.