In all the silent manliness of grief.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.