Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Is it not meningitis?