He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

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.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

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

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

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

it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.