That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.