Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.