The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

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

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

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.