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

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

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.

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.

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?