If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.