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.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

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

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

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.