Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

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

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

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

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

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

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