Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.