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

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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!

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

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.