Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
Hatred is self-punishment.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.