[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.