The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.