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.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

The fearful are the failing.

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

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

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

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