Here is the cross you are to take up.

Your cross is to resist this tendency to mysticism, to sentimental luxury, which is really enfeebling your soul and preventing you from attaining to true spiritual blessedness.
"I think you would better give up Greek, but command yourself sufficiently to master the Latin; that you need, and cannot do without.

Get the Latin, and with that and the English, French, and German which you already know, you can get along very well.

But don't be discouraged.
"I want you to come and see our good bishop.

He is an excellent man--learned, polite, easy, affable, affectionate, and exceedingly warm-hearted.