There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

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

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

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