If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.