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.

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

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

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

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

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

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