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.

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

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

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

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

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.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.