Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

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.

... 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.