The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

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.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.