It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.