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

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

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 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.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

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.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.