Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

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.

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.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

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