Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.