Godliness is practical religion.
Truth is the root of all the charities.
The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.
Politeness is practical Christianity.
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.