To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.