Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.