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

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

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