Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.