Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

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

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.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.