To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.