Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.