In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.