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

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

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

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

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.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

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.