Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.