Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.