It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And … - Dinah Craik

It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

Half the sting of poverty is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comments of one's neighbours.

The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself — a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.