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

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.