It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.