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

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.

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

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

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.

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

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.