A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

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

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!

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

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

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