[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

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

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

The beginning is always today.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.