That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
True repentance also involves reform.
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.