Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.