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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.