If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

It is freezing fit to split a stone.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.