Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.