The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.