Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

Little opportunities should be improved.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.