Politeness is practical Christianity.
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working.
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.
Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.