No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.