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

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

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

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.