Taste Consists In The Power Of Judging;

To Exult Over The Miseries Of An Unhappy Creature Is Inhuman.

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.

Only Mediocrity Of Enjoyment Is Allowed To Man.

It Is Pride Which Fills The World With So Much Harshness And Severity. We Are Rigorous To Offenses As If We Had Never Offended.

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.