Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.
Owen FelthamWe pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
Owen FelthamIt is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Owen Feltham