The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
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.
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
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.