If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

There is perfect love in heaven!

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.