There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

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

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.

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.

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

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.