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.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

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 order.

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

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

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.