I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.