I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.