It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.