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

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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.

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.