The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

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?

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

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.

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

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.