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.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

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

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

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

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

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.