To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.