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

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

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

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

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

In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.