Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.