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The fearful are the failing.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

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

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

What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

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

Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow...

The engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty
These were one in Nature's plan;
Humble toil and heavenward duty
These will form the perfect man.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

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

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

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

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

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

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

A blessing on the printer's art!
Books are the mentors of the heart.

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.

And evermore the waters worship God;
And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
While listening to the music of the waves!

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

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

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

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

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

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds;
I do not make the accident of birth
The standard of their merit.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.