All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

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.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

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.