A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

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

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.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

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.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.