"The greatest enemy to human happiness is the love of money."

"I have been reading a book of travels. I do not know when I have been so much amused. It is a pity that so few of our travellers write like rational creatures."

"I do not believe that there is any woman in the world who has an equal share of both understanding and grace with my sister Martha."

"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a book to read, it should be the Bible."

"I would as soon believe that the sun would stand still, as that a Christian could fall from grace and be lost."