Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

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

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.