How little do they see what really is, who frame their judgments upon that which seems

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers.

Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.