Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

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

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.