Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!