Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.