The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

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

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.