In books, or work, or healthful play.

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

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

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.

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

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

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