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.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

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.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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

Experience is retrospect knowledge.