Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.