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

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

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

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.

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

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.