The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

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

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

But, God knows best, I concluded.