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

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.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.