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.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

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

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

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 would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.