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

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

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.

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