It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.