Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.