Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.