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.

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

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

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.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.

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.