Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
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.
Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.