Idleness among children, as among men is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries.
One pays dear for living long.
The present education of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with academic accomplishments but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, a mother and a wife.
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal, whereas its continuance should have taught us its value.
There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness,
a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful them. The second would make us humble them. The third would make us moderate.
He who has wasted money may by diligence, hope to fetch it back again. But no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour!
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.
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves, work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it. We are too apt to satisfy ourselves with simply commending good things.
We do not really know how to forgive others until we know what it is to be forgiven by God.
[Hannah More]
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