No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

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 hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

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

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.