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

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!