Men are often bad, but babies never are.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.