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

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

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.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

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.