Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.