The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.