Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!