Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

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

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

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

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

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.

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