Hannah More

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

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.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

Goals help you overcome short - term problems.

Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

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

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

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.

Idleness among children as among men is the root of all evil and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

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.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Goals help you overcome short term problems.