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. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
