We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

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.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

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.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

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