The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

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.

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

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

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.