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

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

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

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

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

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

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.