habit is our idea of eternity.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

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.