Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

You never know what you can do till you try.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.