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

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

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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

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

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.

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.