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.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.