Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

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

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

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.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

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