Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give..

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request..

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers ….

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody..

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use..

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand sour….

Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He….

Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little..

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared i….

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know..

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion..

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all..

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue..

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only..

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it..

Sow an action, reap a habit..

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetne….

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded..

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger..

People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of….

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread..