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

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

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

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.

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

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.