It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

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.

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

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