To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

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.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

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

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