No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

The law of heaven is love.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.