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

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

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

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

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

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.