it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.