Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are
but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence
People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.
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