When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

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

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

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

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.