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.

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

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.