The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

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.

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.

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.

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

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