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.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

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

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

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

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.