Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state