Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.