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

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

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.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.