A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.