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

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

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.

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