Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.
Lydia SigourneyAdmitting 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.
Lydia SigourneyThere is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.
Lydia SigourneyPride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
Lydia Sigourney