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

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

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

Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

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

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.