It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.

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

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.