There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

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

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.

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.

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

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!