Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

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.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.