We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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

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

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.