That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

Error is always more busy than truth.

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.