The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it