162 Quotes by Hannah More

It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

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

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

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Sow an action, reap a habit.