A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

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.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.