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

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

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.

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

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.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.