What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
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.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.