Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

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

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.