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.

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.

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

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

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

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.