Quotes by More, Hannah

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and le >>

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless p >>

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Never read any book that is not a year old. >>

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thi >>

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. >>

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah