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, …

- Hugh Blair

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far…

- Hugh Blair

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and orde…

- Hugh Blair

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

- Hugh Blair

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

- Hugh Blair

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

- Hugh Blair

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

- Hugh Blair

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

- Hugh Blair

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

- Hugh Blair