“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others”

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

“Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them”

“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world”

“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”

“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them ”