And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind..

In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting….

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on….

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother..

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 rejoi….

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..

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..

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory..

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

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 DUMP….

O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear, And, bend….

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..

Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes; And, like a portal to t….

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before tr….

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find..

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home..

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

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing..

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence..

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them..