The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

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

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

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 in my education, for I never read.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.