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

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.

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 small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

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

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

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