Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.