No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

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.

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

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

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.

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.

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