Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.