162 Quotes by Hannah More

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.

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.

No adulation; ’tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit – no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious...

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little...

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone...

The secret heart is fair devotion’s temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother...

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.