The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

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.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

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

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.