Quotes from Hannah More

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

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

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.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

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.

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

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.