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 the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

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.

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

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.