Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

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

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.

The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.