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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.