It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

The fearful are the failing.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.