A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

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.

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.

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.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.