Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.