There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

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

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

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.