Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.