Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes |
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. |
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness |
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. |
I believe she would be jealous of a fine day, if her husband praised it |
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. |
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. |
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know. |
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. |
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. |
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. |
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. |
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. |
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. |
Perish discretion when it interferes with duty |