Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

True repentance also involves reform.

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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!

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.