Character
But, indeed, my dear child, this [Christianity] is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast.
To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would… most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of the mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion.
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

