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.

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.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

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

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

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.