What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.