Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

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.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

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