Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

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

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.

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.

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

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