The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.