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.
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
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.