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.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

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

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

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

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.