"In this age of innovation, perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness…"

"All that I intended was, that self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people wou…"

"Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost."

"Her husband requested she would read, and she determined to read; her husband wished her to talk, and she resolved to…"

"There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. The person who can re…"

"There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother. ... But next in rank and efficacy to that pure and holy sour…"

"Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction. These passions mutually stimulate a…"

"Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless, possess a charm for every mind? I be…"

"Some one has called flowers the poetry of earth. They are only its Lyrical poetry. Water is the grand Epic of creatio…"

"A day of bliss is quickly told, A thousand would not make us old As one of sorrow doth— It is by cares, by woes and t…"