That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
The eye is inlet to the soul.
Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
Prosperity often presages adversity.
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.
Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
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