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

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

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.

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

Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

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

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