What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.