Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

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.

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

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.

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

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