That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

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.

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