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

Nor need we power or splendor, </br> Wide halls or lordly dome, </br> The good, the true, the tender, </br> These form the wealth of home.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. The person who can regard the changes in the forest foliage,—that can watch the slow circles of the dead leaf, as it falls from the bough of some lofty tree, till it mingles with the thousands already covering the ground beneath, and not moralize is—not a person that I would advise to retire to the country, in search of happiness. He or she had better stay in the city and be amused. Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.