Hate sin as you would a poisonous snake.

Be gentle, genteel, genuine and generous.

Foul words and foul thoughts make a foul soul.

Contempt should be the best concealed of our sentiments.

The fewer the thoughtless words spoken, the less regret.

Do you want true peace with men? Make your peace with God.

Beauty is a quality of the heart. It is more than skin deep.

Both my language and my sentiments differ widely from theirs. [ Horace ]

When other people are fretful, do you be merciful and patient.

The boy who uses vulgar words will be shunned by all right-minded boys.

Speak to living ears as you will wish you had spoken when they are dead.

Elocution is the adjustment of apt words and sentiments to the subject in debate. [ Cicero ]

They that do nothing are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing.

Kick a barking dog and he will bark the more. Never notice him, and he will shut up.

Weak souls are capable of only weak sentiments; strong souls of powerful sentiments. [ Balzac ]

It is more difficult to dissimulate the sentiments we have, than to simulate those we have not. [ De Saint-Real ]

Be happy if you can, but do not despise those who are otherwise, for you know not their troubles.

The tastes, affections, and sentiments are more absolutely the man than his talent or acquirements. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious. [ Hume ]

If you are going to do a good thing, do it now; if you are going to do a mean thing, wait till tomorrow.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived by others because we first deceive ourselves.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. [ J. Q. Adams ]

Every person has two educations - one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. [ Lowell ]

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity. [ Watts ]

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. [ George Eliot ]

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. [ George Washington ]

When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times! [ Balzac ]

A weapon is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments are perhaps the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound his fellow man. [ Balzac ]

Style in painting is the same as in writing, - a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise; it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe; but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. [ Chesterfield ]

I have all reverence for principles which grow out of sentiments; but as to sentiments which grow out of principles, you shall scarcely build a house of cards thereon. [ Jacobi ]

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship. [ Pope ]

All our opinions, sentiments, principles, prejudices, religious beliefs, are really but the result of birthplace: how different would they be, had we been born and reared at the antipodes of our respective lands. [ De Finod ]

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind. [ Shaftesbury ]

In the moral world nothing is lost, as in the material world nothing is annihilated. All our thoughts and all our sentiments here below, are but the beginning of sentiments and thoughts that will be finished elsewhere. [ Joubert ]

Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. [ Bacon ]

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage! [ Frederic Saunders ]

The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. [ Kossuth ]

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium. [ G. S. Hillard ]

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]