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.

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

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

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.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.