To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

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.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

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.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.