One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?