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.

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

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.

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

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?