Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

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.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

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.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.