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.

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.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.