... 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.

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

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

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

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

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.