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.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

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