Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.