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.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

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

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

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.