As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

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.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

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

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.