Quotes by Hannah More

• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
• 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.
• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
• Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
• Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
• 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.
• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
• 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.