Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

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

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

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.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.