For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.