“A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.”

“Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.”

“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”

“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”

“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.”