Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.