To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
—Hannah More
Topics: Manners
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
—Hannah More
Topics: Prayer
Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
—Hannah More
Topics: Helping, Love
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound.—In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.
—Hannah More
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.
—Hannah More
Topics: Blessings
The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness.—For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character.—That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.
—Hannah More
Topics: Education
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.
—Hannah More
Topics: Luxury, Wealth
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
—Hannah More
Topics: Luxury
So weak is man, so ignorant and blind, that did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request.
—Hannah More
Topics: Prayer
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.
—Hannah More
Topics: Soul
Life though a short, is a working day. “Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
—Hannah More
Topics: Action
O, Jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up.
—Hannah More
Topics: Jealousy
We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
—Hannah More
Topics: Employment
Usually obstacles are the things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
—Hannah More
Topics: Obstacles, Difficulty, Aspirations, Vision, Goal, Goals
There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them—The first will make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.
—Hannah More
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
—Hannah More
Topics: Economy
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 is in darkness.
—Hannah More
Topics: Genius
The world does not require so much to be informed as reminded.
—Hannah More
Topics: Remembrance
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.
—Hannah More
Topics: Knowledge
The secret heart is devotion’s temple; there the saint lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen but not unaccepted.
—Hannah More
Small habits well pursued betimes may reach the dignity of crimes.
—Hannah More
Topics: Habits
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion; makes the thought start into instant action, and at once plans and performs, resolves, and executes!
—Hannah More
Topics: Inaction, Procrastination, Getting Going
In men this blunder still you find, all think their little set mankind.
—Hannah More
Topics: Man
Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.
—Hannah More
Topics: Idleness, Action
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
—Hannah More
Topics: Books, Reading
A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action. It is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies and providing against them; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for them.
—Hannah More
Topics: Economy
Oh, the joy of young ideas painted on the mind, in the warm, glowing colors fancy spreads on objects not yet known, when all is new and all is lovely!
—Hannah More
Topics: Youth
A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.
—Hannah More
Topics: Trifles
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
—Hannah More
Topics: Forgiveness
Christian beneficence takes a large sweep; that circumference cannot be small of which God is the centre.
—Hannah More
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