Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Everything that is exact is short.