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

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

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!

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

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.