“Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.”

“I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More”

“It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make one’s whole life a display of splendid virtue and agreeable qualities, without ever setting foot towards the narrow path, or even one’s face towards the strait gate.” – Hannah More”

“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.”

“Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.”

“Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.”

“Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.”

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

“In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?”

“Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?”