When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.