If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.