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

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

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

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

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