He rebuked a mother who permitted her own children to give her their kisses.

Toward a loving sister, who devoted herself to his comfort, he assumed an artificial harshness of manner for the _express purpose_, as he acknowledged, of revolting her sisterly affection." And all this sprung from the simple principle that earthly enjoyment was inconsistent with religion.
We should fight against every influence which tends to depress the mind, as we would against a temptation to crime.

A depressed mind prevents the free action of the diaphragm and the expansion of the chest.

It stops the secretions of the body, interferes with the circulation of the blood in the brain, and deranges the entire functions of the body.

Scrofula and consumption often follow protracted depressions of mind.