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.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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.

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

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

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

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.