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

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

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

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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.

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.

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