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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.