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

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

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

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

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.

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

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