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.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

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

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

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

The fearful are the failing.

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