When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.