The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?