All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

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