Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.