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.

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.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

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

Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

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