Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.