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 is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

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.

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

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

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