I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.