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

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.