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

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

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

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

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.