What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

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.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

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.

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