What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.