There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land..

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit..

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne..

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafte….

Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in e….

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than an….

It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen w….

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatmen….

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are..

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant..

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to E….

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe ….

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution..