Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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.

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

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

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.