We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.