Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others..

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, th….

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains..

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment..

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance..

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future..

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone..

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation..

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained..

Experience is retrospect knowledge..

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage..

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful..

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills tha….

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner..

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own..

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair pro….

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations..

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer..

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so..

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a larg….

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams..