It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

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

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

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

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.

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.