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.

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

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.

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.

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

The soul of woman lives in love.