It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
In every good man a God doth dwell.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.