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. – Hannah More
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. – Hannah More
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. – Hannah More
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. – Hannah More
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. – 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. – Hannah More
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. – Hannah More
