The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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

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

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

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

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.