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

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

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

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

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

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.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.