Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

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.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

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

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.