Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.