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

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

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

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

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.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The fearful are the failing.