Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

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

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

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!