What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

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.

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

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

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.

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