The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

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.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

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.