What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

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.

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

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

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

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.