162 Quotes by Hannah More

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

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

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

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

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

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