it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

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.

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

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

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

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.