A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

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