The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

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

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.