True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

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

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.