In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.