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

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

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.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

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.

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

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.