It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

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.

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

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

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

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.